Is your password secure?

Taluntain · Fri, 15th Jun '12, 7:07pm

Lately we've been discovering a number of older, more or less inactive accounts, which appear to have been compromised by spammers. The posts made by the original users were left intact, but the spammers manually added various spam signatures to individual posts.

I believe that these accounts have been compromised due to weak passwords, or due to people using the same logins on other sites, which have been compromised in the past.

For your own security, I recommend that your BoM password is unique and impossible to guess. If you know that it currently is not, or you are unsure if it is, please go to the Edit Email & Password section of your User CP and enter a valid e-mail (where you can always automatically retrieve your login to) and a new password.

Better safe than sorry!

Montresor · Fri, 15th Jun '12, 9:59pm

You can check how secure your password is here, and Microsoft has a bit of advice on how to create passwords here.

Master of Nuhn · Sat, 16th Jun '12, 5:05am

Oh! I'm pretty darn sure my password is unique and impossible to guess! If not, send me a pm to prove me I'm wrong.

Vorona · Sat, 16th Jun '12, 5:47am

I take weird parts of my novel working titles and add numbers. Each one is different, but easy to remember.

Gaear · Sat, 16th Jun '12, 6:33am

@Monty - that's a pretty novel way of collecting passwords.

Fri, 15th Jun '12, 7:07pm	#1
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Fri, 15th Jun '12, 9:59pm	#2
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Sat, 16th Jun '12, 5:05am	#3
Master of Nuhn SPS Account Holder Wear it like a crown Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Dordrecht , The Netherlands Posts: 3,637 Blog Entries: 1 Like: 72 Liked 49 Times in 35 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 8,722 Level: 28 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 14.17% Daily Activity 134.66% Weekly Activity 51.35% Monthly Activity 44.59% Achievements Awards	Oh! I'm pretty darn sure my password is unique and impossible to guess! If not, send me a pm to prove me I'm wrong.
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Sat, 16th Jun '12, 5:47am	#4
Vorona SPS Account Holder Shadow-Whisperer Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: The Abyss Posts: 195 Blog Entries: 11 Like: 54 Liked 39 Times in 31 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 975 Level: 10 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 82.3% Daily Activity 46.36% Weekly Activity 37.18% Monthly Activity 66.27% Achievements	I take weird parts of my novel working titles and add numbers. Each one is different, but easy to remember.

Sat, 16th Jun '12, 6:33am	#5
Gaear SPS Account Holder Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,724 Like: 52 Liked 83 Times in 57 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 4,897 Level: 21 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 96.24% Daily Activity 2.21% Weekly Activity 23% Monthly Activity 50.65% Achievements Awards	@Monty - that's a pretty novel way of collecting passwords.